Do rumors become more or less accurate as they are passed on? The author of this paper concludes, on the basis of experiment, that the answer depends on the structure of the situation in which the rumor spreads, and particularly on two variables that are discussed in detail.
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H. Taylor Buckner (1965) studied this question.
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